Towards Industrial Solar Production of Zinc and Hydrogen – Modeling and Design of a 100 kW Solar Pilot Reactor for ZnO Dissociation

18th World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2010, WHEC 2010, Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 313-318

  Gstoehl, D ^a   Cooper, T ^a   Villasmil, W ^a   Meier, A ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

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